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La pietra del paragone

02 Oct 2007
  • France
161 mins
8
1 votes
  • Comedy
  • Music
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LA PIETRA DEL PARAGONE (The Touchstone) concerns the Count Asdrubale who is wealthy and therefore of great interest to many women – notably Aspasia, Fulvia, and Clarice. Only Clarice, however, loves him for something other than his riches. There are also male hangers-on: the corrupt journalist Macrobio, the poetaster Pacuvio, and Giocondo, who is Asdrubale's true friend, but who has his own eyes on Clarice. To test his friends and would-be fiancées, Asdrubale pretends that he has been bankrupted. Sure enough, only Clarice and Giocondo stand by him, and when his fortune is "miraculously" saved, the three have the last laugh on everyone else... or do they? This production is set in what looks like the early 1960s. But the real innovation is the use of blue screen technology: using tiny cameras and sets, along gigantic screens hanging over the stage, a kind of video mixing makes the singers appear to inhabit any number of fanciful settings and perform a myriad of improbable actions.
  • Sonia Prina

    as La marquesa Clarice
  • Jennifer Holloway

    as La baronessa Aspasia
  • Laura Giordano

    as Donna Fulvia
  • François Lis

    as Il conte Asdrubale
  • José Manuel Zapata

    as Il cavalier Giocondo
  • Joan Martín-Royo

    as Macrobio
  • Christian Senn

    as Pacuvio
  • Filippo Polinelli

    as Fabrizio
  • Jean-Christophe Spinosi

    as Self - Conductor
  • Gioacchino Rossini

    as Self - Composer

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